












CODE OF RULES 


GOVERNING THE CONDITION OF, AND 
REPAIRS TO, FREIGHT CARS 

FOR THE 

INTERCHANGE OF TRAFFIC, 

ADOPTED BY THE 

MASTER CAR BUILDERS’ ASSOCIATION 


REVISED AT 

Saratoga, N. Y., June, 1904, 


Published by the Association, 
Rookery, Chicago, III, 

1904. 




CODE OF RULES 

Governing the Condition of, and Repairs 
to, Freight Cars for the Interchange 
of Traffic. 

PREFACE. 

These rules make car owners responsible 
for, and therefore chargeable with, the re- 
pairs to their cars necessitated by ordinary 
wear and tear in fair service, so that defect 
cards will not be required for any defects 


thus arising. 

Railroad companies handling cars are re¬ 
sponsible for damage done to any car by 
unfair usage, derailment or accident, and 
for improper repairs made by them, and 
they should make proper repairs at their 
own expense, or issue defect card covering 
all such damage or improper repairs. 


Care of Foreign Freight Cars. 

Rule i. Each railway company shall give 
to foreign cars, while on its line, the same care 
as to oiling, packing and inspection, that it 
gives to its own cars. 

Interchanging, 1 ' Freight Cars. 

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Rule 2. Cars offered Yn interchange must 
be accepted if in safe 'and serviceable; condi¬ 
tion, the receiving road to be the judge in cases 
not provided for in Rules 3 to 54, inclusive. 

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Instructions for Inspectors. 

USE OF DEFECT CARD. 

Rule 3. Defect cards shall be 3^ inches 
by 8 inches, and of the form shown below. 
They should be printed in red ink on both sides, 
and shall be filled in on both sides with ink or 
black indelible pencil. The cards must plainly 
specify in full each item for which charges are 
authorized, indicating on which end of the car 
the defects exist. The end of the car upon 
which the brake staff is located shall be -known 
as “ B ” end, and the opposite end shall be 
known as “A” end. Where there are two brake 
staffs on same car, the end toward which the 
cylinder push rod travels shall be known as 
“ B ” end. 


M. C. B. Defect Card. 


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Rule 4. Defect cards shall not be required 
for defects for which owners are responsible, 
except for missing material on cars offered in 
interchange, as provided for in Rules 27 and 
39, neither shall they be required of the deliv- 

















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Owners 

responsible; 


Rule 4 — Continued. 

ering road for improper repairs that were not 
made by it, with the exception of the cases 
provided for in Rules 31, 40, 41, 42 and 43. 

Rule 5.. If a car has defects for which the 
owners are not responsible, but which do not 
render it unsafe to run, nor unsafe to train¬ 
men, nor to any lading suitable to the car, the 
receiving road may require that a defect card 
be securely attached to the car with four tacks, 
preferably on the outside face of intermediate 
sill, between cross-tie timbers. 

Rule 6. Duplicate defect cards shall be 
furnished for lost or illegible cards. 

Wheels. 

DEFECTS OF WHEELS WHICH JUSTIFY RENEWAL. 

f Rule 7. Shelled out: wheels with defective 
treads on account of pieces shelling out; if the 
spots are over 2^ inches, or are so numerous as 
to endanger the safety of the wheel. 

Rule 8. Seams 1 inch long or over at a dis¬ 
tance of Yz inch or less from the throat of the 
flange, or seams 3 or more inches long on any 
other point of the tread. 

Rule 9. Worn through chill: when the worn 
spot exceeds 2 }/2 inches in length. Care must 
be taken to distinguish this defect from flat 
spots caused by sliding wheels. 

Rule 10. Worn flange: wheels under cars of 
80,000 pounds capacity or under, with flanges 
having flat vertical surfaces extending more 
than 1 inch from tread, or flange 1 inch thick or 
less. Wheels under cars of over 80,000 pounds 





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Rule io — Continued. , 

capacity with flanges having flat vertical sur¬ 
faces extending more than % inch from tread, 
or flange less than i 1-16 inches thick. (See 
Figs. 4 and 4 a.) 

Rule ii. Thick flange: flange over 1 7-16 
inches thick. This does not apply to wheels 
cast prior to September 1, 1894. (See Fig. 2.) 

Rule 12. Tread worn hollow : if the tread is 
worn sufficiently hollow to render the flange or 
rim liable to breakage. 

Rule 13. Burst: if the wheel is cracked from 
the wheel fit, outward, by pressure from the axle. 

Rule 14. Broken flange, caused by seams, 
worn through chill or worn flange. See also 
Rules 20 and 21. 

Rule 15. Broken or chipped rim, caused by 
defective casting, if the tread, measured from 
the flange at a point 24 inch above tread, is less 
than 3^4 inches in width. (See Fig. 5.) See 
also Rules 20 and 21. 

Rule 16. Cracked tread, cracked plate, one or 
more cracked brackets, or broken in pieces 
under fair usage. See also Rule 20. 

Rule 17. Wheels loose or out of gauge. 
(See Figs. 6 and 7.) 

Rule 18. Chipped flange: if chip is on the 
outside of the flange and exceeds 134 inches in 
length and 34 inch in width, or if it extends 34 
inch past the center of flange. 

Rule 19. Flat sliding; if the spot caused by 1 
sliding is 234 inches or over in length. (Care j 
should be taken to distinguish this defect from f 
worn through chill.) \ 


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Rule 20. Broken flange, except a$ in Rule 
14; chipped flange, if chip is on throat side of 
flange, and exceeds 1 y 2 inches in length and Yz 
inch in width, or if it extends Y inch past the 






































Rule 20— Continued. 

center of flange; broken rim, if not caused by 
defective casting, if the tread, measured from 
the flange at a point % inch above tread, is less 
than 3^ inches in width (see Fig. 5), or any 
breakage caused by unfair usage, derailment or 
accident. 


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Rule 21. The determination of flat spots, 
worn flanges and chipped treads shall be made 
by a gauge as shown in Fig. 1. The determina¬ 
tion of thick flanges shall be made by a gauge 
as shown applied to M. C. B. standard wheel 
tread and flange in Fig. 2. 

The following engravings of the wheel defect 
gauge, Fig. 1, show the method of using it: 



METHOD OF GAUGING SHELLED AND 
FLAT SPOTS. 

SEE RULES 7 AND 19 . 



Fig. 4. 

METHOD OF GAUGING WORN FLANGES. 

SEE RULE 10. 

For wheels under cars of 80,000 pounds capacity or 
under with flanges 1 inch thick or less; over 80,000 pounds 
capacity with flanges less than i^g inches thick. 




















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Rule 21— Continued. 



Fig. 4 a. 

METHOD OF GAUGING WORN FLANGES. 

SEE RULE IO. 

For wheels under cars of 80,000 pounds capacity or 
under, 1 inch from tread ; over 80,000 pounds capacity 
% inch from tread. 



Fig. 5. 

METHOD OF GAUGING CHIPPED RIMS. 
SEE RULES 15 AND 20 . 





























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Rule 21— Continued. 



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Axles. 

DEFECTS OF AXLES WHICH JUSTIFY RENEWAL. 

Rule 22. Axles broken, or having seamy 
journals, fillets at the back shoulder worn out, 
or with collars broken or worn to inch or 
less, under fair usage. 

Rule 23. Axles less than the following pre¬ 
scribed limits: 


CAPACITY OF CAR. 

JOURNAL. 

WHEEL SEAT. 

CENTER. 

100,000 

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80,000 

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All cars to have their capacity stenciled on 
. them. 


Rule 24. Cut journals, axles bent or axles 
rendered unsafe by unfair usage, derailment or 
accident. 


Trucks. 

DEFECTS OF TRUCKS WHICH JUSTIFY REPAIRS IF 
OWNERS ARE RESPONSIBLE, OR REPAIRS OR CARD¬ 
ING IF DELIVERING COMPANY IS RESPONSIBLE. 

Rule 25. Defective, missing or worn-out 
parts of trucks not elsewhere provided for, 
which have failed under fair usage, or if any 
part of the truck frame or attachments is less 
than 2]/2 inches above the top of the rail. 











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Rule 26. Damage of any kind to the truck 
due to unfair usage, derailment or accident. 

Rule 27. Material missing from trucks of 
cars offered in interchange. 

Rule 28. Journal bearings and journal box 
bolts which require renewal by reason of 
change of wheels or axles for which the de¬ 
livering company is responsible, regardless of 
the previous condition of the bearings. 

Brakes. 

defects of brakes which justify repairs. 

Rule 29. Defective, missing or worn-out 
parts of brakes, not elsewhere provided for, 
which have failed under fair usage, except 
mjssing material on cars offered in interchange. 

Rule 30. Cylinder or triple valves of air¬ 
brake cars not cleaned and oiled within twelve 
months and the date of last cleaning and 
oiling marked on the brake cylinder with white 
paint. j 

Rule 31. If i-inch hose and fittings are 
found on iJ4-inch train pipe. 

Rule 32. Missing or torn air-brake hose or 
missing or broken air-brake fittings, angle 
cocks, cut-out cocks, cylinders and reservoirs, 
triple valves, release valves and pressure-re¬ 
taining valves or parts of any of these items. 

Rule 33. Damage to any part of the brake 
apparatus caused by unfair usage, derailment or 
accident. 

Rule 34. If the car has air-signal pipes or 
air-brake pipes, but no air brakes, the hose and 
couplings on the car are at owner’s risk, unless 
the car is stenciled that it is so equipped. 


Delivering 

Company 

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Owners 

responsible. 


Delivering 

Company 

responsible. 


Bodies. 

DEFECTS OF BODIES WHICH JUSTIFY REPAIRS IF 
OWNERS ARE RESPONSIBLE, OR REPAIRS OR CARD¬ 
ING IF DELIVERING COMPANY IS RESPONSIBLE. 

Rule 35. Locks, side doors, end doors, roof 
doors, grain doors and all inside or concealed 
parts of cars missing or damaged under fair 
usage, and failure or loss under fair usage of 
any part of the body of the car, except as 
provided for in Rules 39 and 85. 

Rule 36. Cars not within the limits of stand¬ 
ard height for couplers, 313/2 inches to 34L2 
inches for standard gauge cars. 

Rule 37. Steps, ladders, handholds or run¬ 
ning boards in bad order or insecurely fastened, 
or absence of grabirons or handholds as re¬ 
quired by law. Handholds or grabirons must 
be of wrought iron or steel and secured by 
bolts or lag screws. 

Rule 38. Damage of any kind to the body of 
the car due to unfair usage, derailment or acci¬ 
dent. 

Rule 39. Material missing from body of cars 
offered in interchange, except locks, grain 
doors and all inside or concealed parts of car. 

Rule 40. M. C. B. couplers not equipped with 
steel or wrought-iron knuckles. 

RulF 41. Cars intended to be equipped with 
metal brake beams and so stenciled, if found 
with wooden brake beams. 

Rule 42. Cars equipped with M. C. B. coup¬ 
lers having pocket rear-end attachments and so 
stenciled, if found with tail-pin attachments 
instead of pocket. 


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Rule 43. Uncoupling attachments of M. C. B. ] 
couplers offered in interchange must be made ! 
operative before moving from interchange | 
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Delivering 

Company 

responsible. 


IMPROPER REPAIRS. 


Rule 44. Any company making improper 
repairs is solely responsible to the owners, with 
the exception of the cases provided for in 
Rules 31, 40, 41, 42 and 43. 

Rule 45. The company making such im¬ 
proper repairs shall place upon the car, at the 
time and place that the work is done, an M. C. 
B. defect card, which card shall state the wrong 
material used. 


Company 

making 

repairs 

responsible. 


COMBINATIONS OF DEFECTS WHICH DENOTE 
UNFAIR USAGE IF CAUSED AT ONE AND THE 
SAME TIME AND AT THE SAME END OF CAR. 

Rule 46. Damaged coupler, accompanied by 
damage to either coupler stop, filling block, 
draft timber or its substitute,.or end sill. 

Rule 47. Damaged coupler pocket, accom¬ 
panied by damage to either draft timber pr 
its substitute, or end sill. 

Rule 48. Damaged coupler stop or filling 
block, accompanied by damage to either coupler 
or end sill. 

Rule 49. Damaged draft timber or its sub¬ 
stitute, accompanied by damage to either coup¬ 
ler, coupler pocket, or to end sill. 

Rule 50. Damaged wood or iron buffer 
block, accompanied by damage to end sill. 




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Rule 51. Damaged end sill, accompanied by 
damage to either coupler, coupler pocket, 
coupler stop, filling block, draft timber or its 
substitute, wood or iron buffer block, or longi¬ 
tudinal sill. 

Rule 52. Damaged longitudinal sill, accom¬ 
panied by damage to end sill. 

Rule 53. Damaged longitudinal sills, if ne¬ 
cessitating replacement or splicing of more than 
two sills. 

Rule 54. Damaged corner and end posts, if 
necessitating the replacement of, or repairs to, 
more than two end or two corner posts at one 
end, or more than one end and one corner post 
at same end of car. 

The word “ coupler ” in the above rules, 46 to 54, 
inclusive, means the coupler body or knuckle. 

Instructions to Repair Men. 

Rule 55. Any car having defects which 
render it unsafe to run, unsafe to trainmen, or 
to any lading suitable to the car, may be re¬ 
paired. 

Rule 56. Repairs to foreign cars shall be 
promptly made, and the work shall conform in 
detail to the original constructio.n, and with the 
quality of material originally used, except that 
malleable iron M. C. B. standards may be sub¬ 
stituted for gray iron M. C. B. standards, and 
gray iron may be used in place of malleable 
where gray iron is an M. C. B. standard, pro¬ 
vided that in substituting malleable iron for 
gray iron the price of gray iron is used, and 
except as provided for in Rules 60 and 61. 


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Rule 57. In repairing damaged cars M. C. B. 
standards may be used when of dimensions that 
do not impair the strength of the cars, in lieu of 
the parts forming its original construction. 
When using materials for repairs to foreign 
cars for which the Master Car Builders’ Asso¬ 
ciation has adopted specifications as a stand¬ 
ard, the materials must comply with the re¬ 
quirements of these specifications. 

Rule 58. In making repairs for which own¬ 
ers are responsible, 30-inch and 36-inch wheels 
may be replaced with 33-inch wheels, if prac¬ 
ticable. If changes are necessary in order to 
bring the car to the proper height, the cost of 
so doing shall also be chargeable to the car 
owner. • 

Rule 59. Couplers of the vertical plane type 
other than M. C. B. replaced with M. C. B. 
standard, the expense of alteration thus neces¬ 
sitated shall be chargeable to car owners. 

Rule 60. When M. C. B. couplers of an¬ 
other make are placed upon a car, the uncoup¬ 
ling arrangements shall be made operative at 
the expense of the company making the repairs. 

Rule 61. When M. C. B. couplers, knuckles, 
metal brake beams, wheels or axles are re¬ 
placed under conditions which make them 
chargeable to the owner, it must be plainly 
stated on the repair card and stub whether the 
material is new or secondhand. 

Rule 62. Any company finding cars not within 
the limits of standard height for couplers may 
make repairs and charge to owners. Cars 
should be adjusted in height when empty, as 


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Rule 62— Continued. 

far as possible, and in order to justify a bill for 
this work under the Rules of Interchange an 
empty car measuring 323/2 inches or less should 
be adjusted to 343/2 inches, or within 34 inch 
thereof, and when it is necessary to alter a 
loaded car it should be adjusted to 33^2 inches, 
or within 34 inch thereof, or as nearly as pos¬ 
sible to such height as will bring it to 3434 
inches when the car is unloaded, the height to 
be measured from top of the rails to the center 
line of the coupler shank. 

Rule 63. Center sills or draft timbers must 
not be spliced. All other sills may be spliced 
once. When the sills are less than 12 inches in 
* depth the plan shown in Fig. 8 is to be fol¬ 
lowed : 



When the sills are 12 inches or more in depth 
the plan shown in Fig. 9 is to be followed: 



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Rule 63— Continued. 

The splice may be located either side of body 
bolster, but the nearest point of any splice must 
not be within 12 inches of same. The splicing 
of two adjacent sills at the same end of the car, 
or the splicing of any sill between cross-tie 
timbers, will not be allowed. 

Rule 64. Wheels on the same axle must be 
of the same circumference. 

Rule 65. New wheels must not be mated 
with secondhand wheels. * 

Rule 66. Prick punching or shimming the 
wheel fit must not be allowed. 

Rule 67. The wheel seats of foreign axles 
must not be reduced more than 1-16 inch to fit 
the wheels, and in no case must they be reduced 
below the limits given in Rule 23. 

Rule 68. Any company repairing foreign cars 
with wrong material, and not in compliance 
with the Rules 55 to 68, inclusive, shall be lia¬ 
ble to the owners for the cost of changing such 
car to the original standard, or to the require¬ 
ments of these rules, except that companies ap¬ 
plying axles smaller than the limits given in 
Rule 23 shall not be held responsible for im¬ 
proper repairs if the car is not stenciled show¬ 
ing the capacity of the car. 

Rule 69. In replacing air-brake hose on 
foreign cars for which bills are made, new 
hose must be used. 

Rule 70. If the weight of a car is found to 
vary more than 500 pounds from the light 
weight stenciled on the car a railroad company 


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Rule 70— Continued. 

having the car in its possession may weigh and 
restencil the car, mak'ing a charge for each car 
weighed and so reported. The railroad com¬ 
pany making th6 bill shall notify the owner, 
giving the date and point at which the reweigh¬ 
ing was done. 

Rule 71. Cars undergoing extraordinary re¬ 
pairs, such as' sills, resheathing, roofing, etc., 
must be reweighed and restenciled by the com¬ 
pany having the car in its possession at its own 
expense, and the owner notified. 

Rule 72. When secondhand axles are applied 
under conditions which make them chargeable 
to the owners, the diameters of journals of 
such axles applied must not be less than J /& 
inch above the limit dimensions given in Rule 
23- 

Rule 73. When two or more cars chained 
together, or any cars which require switch 
chains to handle them, are delivered at an 
interchange point, the receiving road shall 
deliver to the delivering road at the time, an 
equivalent number of switch chains of the 
same size as the chains so used on the cars 
delivered, or, in lieu thereof, furnish a defect 
card for such chains. 

Use of Repair Card. 

Rule 74. When repairs of any kind are made 
to foreign cars a repair card shall be securely 
attached to outside face of intermediate sill be¬ 
tween cross-tie timbers. This card shall spec- 


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Rule 74 — Continued. 

ify fully the repairs made, and reason for same, 
the date and place where made, and name of 
road making repairs; also show location of 
parts repaired or renewed. The end of car on 
which brake staff is located shall be known as 
“ B ” end, and the opposite end as “A” end. 
Where there are two brake staffs on the car, the 
end toward which the cylinder push rod travels 
shall be known as “ B ” end. The card shall be 
provided with a stub, which will duplicate 
information on the card and stubs must be 
forwarded with the bill. 

If no bill is to be rendered, the repair card 
stub must be forwarded on or before the twen¬ 
tieth day of each month, with the words “no 
bill ” written "across the face of the repair card 
stub. In case it is not the intention to render 
bill, the words “ no bill ” shall be written across 
the face of the repair card. 

Rule 75-. The repair card shall be 3^ by 8 
inches, and the stub 3^ by 4 inches. The card 
shall be printed on both sides in black ink, and 
shall be filled in on both sides with ink or 
black indelible pencil, and be of the following 
form: 


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Rule 75— Continued. 

The cards and stubs must state whether solid 
or filled journal bearings are applied or re¬ 
moved. 

Rule 76. Any road making partial repairs of 
defects on a car which are covered by defect 
cards will have the defects repaired crossed off 
the original card with ink or indelible pencil 
and card placed back on car. A copy of the 
card accompanying the bill with the defects 
which were not repaired crossed off will be 
sufficient authority to bill. 

Rule 77. Duplicate repair cards shall be fur¬ 
nished for lost or illegible cards. 

Instructions for Billing. 

Rule 78. Bills may be rendered for work 
done under Rule 55, except in cases where 
owners are not responsible and the car bears 
no defect card covering the defects repaired, 
stating upon the bill the date and place where 
the repairs were made; the repair card stub 
or defect card to accompany the' bill. 

Rule 79. Car owners may require receipt of 
repair card or stub before payment of bill for 
repairs. 

Rule 80. For repairs made on defect cards, 
the card must accompany the bill as voucher 
for the work done, but no bill shall be rendered 
for repairs which have not been made. 

Rule 81. When improper repairs of owner’s 
defects have been made and bill rendered, the 
owner may counter bill against the company 



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Rule 8i— Continued. 

making the wrong repairs for the cost of 
changing the car to the original standard, or to 
the requirements of Rules 55 to 77, inclusive, 
if the work is done. 4 

Rule 82. When improper repairs of defects 
for which owners are not responsible are made, 
the owner may make bill against the company 
making the improper repairs for the cost of 
changing the car to the original standard, or to 
the requirements of Rules 55 to 77, inclusive, 
if the work is done. 

Rule 83. The evidence of a joint inspector or 
the joint evidence of two persons, one repre¬ 
senting the owner of the car, and the other rep¬ 
resenting the delivering road, that the repairs 
are not proper, 'fehall be final. A joint evidence 
card shall be used for this purpose, which shall 
describe and show location of parts repaired or 
.renewed. The end of the car on which the 
brake staff is located shall be known as “ B ” 
end, and the opposite end as “A” end. Where 
there are two brake staffs on the car, the end 
toward which the cylinder push rod travels 
shall be known as “ B ” end. This card shall 
be of the following form: 


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Rule 84. The joint evidence card, accom¬ 
panied by a proper repair card, upon which a 
bill has been made, shall be used as authority 
for rendering bill, but if unaccompanied by 
such repair card, the joint evidence card shall 
be sent to the company against which the evi¬ 
dence has been presented, and it shall furnish 
a defect card covering the wrong repairs if it 
made them. 

Rule 85. Bills may be rendered against car 
owners for the labor only of replacing couplers, 
brake beams (including their attachments, such 
as shoes, heads, key bolts, jaws and hangers), 
brake levers, top and bottom brake rods that 
have been lost on the line of the company mak¬ 
ing the repairs. Coupler springs, followers and 
yokes may be included in the above, providing 
they have been lost with the couplers. 

Rule 86. In making bills under these rules, 
the information necessary for the car depart¬ 
ment should be embodied on the following 
forms, whether the same is made as a bill or a 
statement to accompany a bill: 


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No. on 
Wheel 
or Axle 


Date 

Cast. 


Vtaker. 



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on Wheels 
and Axles. 


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of 

Removal. 


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or Axle 


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30 


Rule 87. Bills rendered for wheels and axles 
shall be in accordance with the following 
schedule of prices for material, with the proper 
debits and credits: 



New. 

Second¬ 

hand. 

Scrap. 

One 36-inch wheel. 

$10.00 

$ 7 - 50 

$5-oo 

One 33-inch wheel. 

8.50 

6.75 

4-5° 

One axle, 100,000 lbs. 

24.00 

13-5° 

7.75 

One axle, 80,000 lbs. 

19.00 

11.00 

6.50 

One axle, 60,000 lbs. 

14.00 

7-75 

5-25 

One axle, 50,000 lbs. (or 
under). 

| 12.00 

6.50 

4-5° 


and with an additional charge for all labor for 
each pair of wheels and axles removed from 
all arch bar trucks of $1.75, and from all solid 
pedestal trucks of $2.00. If new wheels and 
axles are substituted for secondhand wheels 
and axles, proper charges and credits shall be 
allowed, although such substitution be made on 
account of only one loose or defective wheel, 
or a defective axle, with the following excep¬ 
tions : In case the owner of a car removes a 
damaged wheel or axle, no charge shall be 
made for any difference in value between the 
parts used and those removed that are not 
damaged. 

Rule 88 . If car owner elects on account of 
improper repairs to remove M. C. B. standard 
axles suitable to the capacity of the car, he shall 
make charge for secondhand axles and allow 
credit for secondhand axles if they are in good 
order. Axles removed below the journal limit 





















31 


Rule 88 — Continued. 

of 100,000 pounds, 80,000 pounds, 60,000 pounds 
and 40,000 pounds capacity to be credited as 
scrap when removed. 

Rule 89. Bills for wheel and axle work 
must make specific mention of each axle and 
wheel removed or applied. 

Rule 90. Bills which do not embody all the 
information called for by the headings of the 
columns may be declined until made to con¬ 
form 4 to the requirements of the rule. If no 
marks are found on wheels or axles removed, 
a notation to that effect must be made on face 
of bill. 

Rule 91. In noting on bills the cause of re¬ 
moval of wheels and axles, the terms.used in 
Rules 7 to 24, inclusive, shall be used, and the 
dimensions of the defect or variation from the 
prescribed limits should be carefully specified. 

Rule 92. Bills for repairs made under these 
rules and for material furnished shall be in 
conformity with schedules of prices and credits 
for the articles enumerated below: 


Material. 

Charge. 

Credit. 

Air-brake hose, inch, complete 

with fittings, applied to car. 

Air-brake hose, 1 % inch, credit for 
fittings for same. . . 

$2.00 

$0.80 

Air-brake hose, i inch, complete with 
fittings applied to car . 

1-75 

1.40 

.08 

Air-brake hose, i inch, credit for 

fittings for same..1. 

Angle cock . 

.80 

Anplp rnr.k handle . 


Auxiliary reservoir 

2.45 

.03 


Bolts, nuts, and forgings, finished, 
per lb. 

&c. 

Brake shoes applied; no credit for 
scrap.. 

.30 























Rule 92— Continued. 


32 


Material. 


Brake shoe key, applied; no credit 
for scrap.. 


Castings, rough iron.per lb. 

“ “ mallea’e iron, “ 

•* “ steel. “ 

Chain. 

Coupling, dummy. . 

Coupler, M. C. B., complete, new, 

malleable iron. 

Coupler. M. C. B., complete, new, 

steel. 

Coupler body, one, new, malleable 

iron. 

Coupler body, one, new, steel. 

Coupler knuckle, one, new. 

Other individual malleable,wrought 

or steel parts.per lb. 

Cut-out cock. 

Cut-out cock handle.... 

Cylinder, body (8 by n inches). 

“ piston and rod. 

“ piston follower. 

“ piston packing leather.... 

“ •* “ “ ex¬ 
pander . 

Cylinder piston release spring. 

“ non-pressure head .... 

“ gasket. 


Door, for end of box or stock car, 
wooden, each, applied, no credit 

for scrap. 

Door, for end of box or stock car, 
ventilated (wooden frame with 
iron rods), each, applied; no 

credit for scrap. 

Door, for side of box or stock car, 
wooden, each, applied; no credit 

for scrap. 

Door, for side of box or stock car; 
ventilated (wooden frame with 
iron rods), each, applied; no 

credit for scrap. 

Door, for side of stock car, with 
iron rods, each, applied; no credit 

for scrap. 

Door, for roof of coke car, wooden, 
each, applied, no credit for scrap. 
Door, for roof of stock car, wooden, 
each, applied, no credit for scrap. 
Gasket, air-hose coupling. 


Charge. 


$0.05 

■01H 

•03 

.0414 

• 05 

. 10 

7- 2 5 
8.25 ' 

5-25 

6 25 
i-75 

• 03)4 

1.20 

.08 

1.60 

■ 95 
. 10 
.40 

•05 

•50 

• 50 

•05 


i -75 

3.00 

3.50 

5.00 

4.00 

2.25 

• 75 
.04 


Credit. 


Ac- 

l Ac. 

H c. 


.01 


.90 
1.05 
• 45 





























































33 


Rule 92— Continued. 


Material. 


Charge. 


Credit 


Half door, for side of box or stock 
car, each, applied; no credit for 

scrap. 

Hatch cover, for roof of refrigerator 
car, wooden, each applied, no 

credit for scrap. . 

Hatch plug, for refrigerator car, 
wooden, each applied, no credit 

for scrap. . 

Iron, galvanized.per lb. 

Journal bearings of brass or bronze, 
lined or unlined, per lb., applied. 
Journal bearings, filled brass or 

bronze shell, per lb., applied. 

The weight charged for new jour¬ 
nal bearings for 7-inch journals and 
over, but not 8 inches long, shall 
not exceed 10 pounds ; the weight 
charged for new journal bearings for 
journals 8 inches long and less than 

9 inches long shall not exceed 13 
pounds; and for new journal bear¬ 
ings 9 inches long or over, but not 

10 inches, 20 pounds. The weight 
charged for new journal bearings 
for *oo,ooo-pound capacity cars (5^ 
by io inches) shall be 25 pounds. 
The weight of scrap credited must 
be one-half the weight of the bear¬ 
ing charged. 

Labor, per hour. 

Lumber—yellow, white and Norway 
pine, poplar, oak. hickory and 
elm, dressed and framed per ft. 
B. M. required to make the part.. 

Nails ...per lb. 

Paint, lead, freight car, mixed, “ 
Paint, mineral, freight car, mixed, 

per lb. 

Pipe, nipple on end of train pipe.... 

Pipe, ^-inch, per foot. 

“ 1% “ “ . 

Pressure-retaining valve. 

Release valve. 

Release valve handle.. 

Release rod. 

Steel for springs, rough.per lb. 

“ helical springs. “ 

Train pipe air strainer (1% inch) . .. 

Triple check valve case.. 

“ cylinder cap (drain cup). 


$2.50 

1.50 


i-5o . 

•C4 . 

.16 $0.11 

.12 .09 


.20 


•03 

.03 

•15 


.05 

.10 

•03 
.07 
1.00 
.70 
.08 
.10 
.04 

■ 03% 
• 55 
. 80 
.70 


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Rule 92— Continued. 


Material. 

Charge. 

Credit. 

Triple cylinder cap (drain cup) gas- 

$0.35 

•55 

• 50 

•45 

.05 

• 25 

,02 

.08 

• 05 
•15 

• 25 
•05 

1-75 

.25 

.90 

• 05 

• 05 

• 15 


“ emergency valve. 


“ “ “ seat. 

“ “ “ piston. 

“ “ " rubber seat. 

“ “ check valve. 

“ “ spring. 

“ “ “ case gasket 

“ graduating spring.. 

“ “ stem. 


“ " “ nut. . . 

“ “ valve . 

“ piston and ring. . 


“ “ ring (only).. f. . 


“ slide valve. 


.. spring. 

“ valve strainer. 


“ “ gasket. 





Rule 93. Not more than one pound of min¬ 
eral paint can be charged for 15 square feet of 
surface covered, and not more than one pound 
of lead paint for 12 square feet of surface cov¬ 
ered. No charge to be made for lettering. 

Rule 94. Whenever scrap credits are allow 
able the weights of scrap credited shall be equal 
to the weights of the new metal applied, except 
as otherwise provided in the rules, and except 
in the case of scrap M. C. B. couplers, and parts 
of same, and material applied on defect cards, 
in which cases the weight and kind of metal 
removed shall be credited. 

Rule 95. In the application of channels they 
should be charged out at the current market 
price plus the necessary labor for drilling, 
etc.; credit should be at prices quoted above 
for similar metal. 












































35 


Rule 96. Bills shall not be rendered for 
amounts less than 25 cents in aggregate, but 
charges for items less than 25 cents may be 
held until they amount to that sum, provided 
said aggregate is rendered within 60 days. No 
bill shall be returned for correction on account 
of error for less than 100 cents in aggregate of 
bill, but said bill shall be passed for payment at 
once, and the alleged error brought to the at¬ 
tention of the road rendering the same within 
sixty days from date of bill. The receiving road 
shall at once issue a letter of authority for 
counter bill to cover the acknowledged error, 
said letter to be attached to the bill as author¬ 
ity. 

No bills shall be returned for correction on 
account of wrong car numbers, but road ren¬ 
dering bill should be communicated with by 
letter, and if, after investigation, it is found 
to be a fact that wrong car number has been 
given, correct number shall be furnished or 
credit covering amount of charge allowed on 
next month’s bill. 

When necessary to return bills for correc¬ 
tion, all defect cards and repair' card stubs 
should be detached except those covering re¬ 
pairs to cars, the charge for which there may 
be some question as to its correctness. 

Rule 97. All offices rendering bill should 
consolidate all charges against any one com¬ 
pany into one monthly bill. 

Rule 98. Journal bearings having a lining 
Y inch thick or thicker, shall be charged as 
filled journal bearings, and not as lined journal 
bearings. 


36 


Rule 99. In rendering bills for owner’s de¬ 
fects, the following should be observed: 

No credit for scrap and no charge for labor 
shall be allowed in renewing brake shoes. 

Rule ioo. When M. C. B. coupler' parts or 
metal brake beams are replaced, good second¬ 
hand material may be used, but they must be 
charged at seventy-five per cent of the prices 
when new. The credits for similar parts re¬ 
leased from service in good condition must 
also be seventy-five per cent of the prices when 
new. 

Rule ioi. Manufactured articles not included 
in the above list must be charged at current 
market prices, without freight charges. 

Rule 102. No percentage to be added to 
either material or Jabor. . 

Rule 103. Bills for the following work, to 
make cars conform to United States laws and 
to conform to the requirements of Rule 62, 
must be rendered within 60 days after the 
work is done, and must state the height of the 
car before and after altering: 


Altering height of one end of one car. $1.00 

Putting on one handhold or grabiron.25 


Rule 104. The following table shows the 
number of hours which may be charged for 
labor in doing the various items of work 
enumerated, which includes all work necessary 
to complete each item of repairs, except in so 
far as labor is already included in charges for 
materials: 




37 


Rule 104 —Continued. 


% 

Ordinary 

Cars. 

Refrigerator 

Cars. 

Hrs. 

Charge 

for 

Labor. 

Hrs. 

Charge 

for 

Labor. 

American continuous draft rods, one 





rod, welding. 

X 

$0.20 

1 

$0.20 

Arch bars, i or 2, replaced on same 





side of truck. 

3 

.60 

3 

.60 

Arch bar, upper or lower, or both, 





blacksmith shop labor, repairing .. 

2 

.40 

2 

.40 

Axle, bent, straightening. 

4 

.80 

4 

.80 

Bolster, body, composite, one, repl ... 

10 

2.00 

12 

2.40 

Bolster, body, plain metal or wood, 





one,replaced. 

8 

1.60 

10 

2.00 

Bolster, body, .plain metal or wood, 





one, replaced when one or more de- 





fective sills are replaced. 

2 

• .40 

2 

.40 

Bolster, composite, one, replaced 





when one or more defective sills are 





replaced ... 

4 

.80 

4 

.80 

Bolster, truck, one, replaced. 

10 

2-00 

10 

2.00 

Bolster, truck, one, and one spring 





plank in same truck, replaced. 

12 

2.40 

12 

2.40 

Brake beam, one, replaced. 

2 

.40 

2 

.40 

Brake beam, one, metal, blacksmith 





labor repairing.. 

2 

.40 

2 

.40 

Buffer blocks, cast-iron, each, repl’ng 

I 

.20 

I 

.20 

Buffer blocks, wooden, replacing at 





one end of car. 

2 

.40 

1 2 

.40 

Carlin, one, replaced . 

Q 

.60 



Carrier iron bolts, three or less, at one 





end of car, applied. 

2 

.40 

2 

.40 

Carrier iron bolts, all at one end of 





car, applied. 

3 

,60 

3 

.60 

Center pin head applied, empty car. .. 

14 

.10. 

14 

. TO 

Center pin head applied, loaded car... 

2 

.40 

2 

■ 40 

Center pin key applied, empty car. 


-30 


; 30 

Center plate one, replacing. 

2 

.40 

2 

.40 

Center plates, two, replacing at same 





end. 

3 

.Go 

3 

. 60 

Center plate bolts, replacing, in part 





or all at one end . 

3 

.60 

3 

.Co 

Center plate bolt or bolts and center 





plate, replacing, on one end of car.. 

3 

.60 

3 

.60 

Column bolts, one or more, replaced 





in same truck. 

2 

.40 

: 2 

.40 

Corner iron, one, replaced. 

I 

.20 

■ I 

.20 

Corner post, one, replaced, empty car 

3 

.GO 

6 

1.20 

Corner post, one, replaced, loaded car 

4 

.80 

6 

1.20 

Coupler stops, all, at one end of car, 





replaced. 

3 

.60 

3 

.60 







































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38 

Rule 104— Continued. 



Ordinary 

Cars. 


Hrs. 

Charge 

for 

Labor. 

Coupler stops, one or two, at same 
end of car, replaced. 

2 

$0.40 

Coupler, with stem attachments, coup¬ 
ler springs, one or more follower 
plates, American continuous draft 
key, American continuous draft 
rods, one or two coupler stops, 
renewing or replacing any or all, at 
same end of car, at same time. 

2 

.40 

Coupler, with pocket attachments, 
coupler spring, one or more follower 
plates, one or two coupler stops, 
coupler pocket, coupler pocket riv¬ 
ets, renewing or replacingany or all, 
at same end of car at same time.... 

3 

.60 

Cross-tie timber, one, replaced. 

3 

. 60 

Cross-tie timber, one, replaced when 
one or more defective sills are 
replaced. 

I 

.20 

Door, end, old, rehanging. 

Vi 

. 10 

Door, side, old, rehanging. 

I 

.20 

Door post, one, replaced, empty car.. 

3 

.60 

Door post, one, replaced, loaded car.. 

4 

-80 

Draft timber, one, replaced. 

6 

1.20 

Draft timber, one, replaced when its 
center sill has been replaced..,.... 

1 

.20 

Draft timbers, two, on same end, re¬ 
placed. 

9 

X .80 

Draft timber bolts complete, at one 
end of car, replacing. 

3 

.60 

Draft timber bolts, three or less at 
one end of car, replacing. 

2 

.40 

Draft timber bolts, four or more at 

one end of car, replacing . 

End plank, one, renewed on gondola 

car. 

without angle irons. 

3 

.60 

2 

.40 

with angle irons, bolted.. 

3 

.60 

with angle iron, riveted.. 

5 

1.00 

End planks, two, renewed on same end, 
without angle irons. 

2^ 

■ 50 

with angle irons, bolted... 

3 K 

.70 

with angle irons, riveted.. 

5 % 

1.10 


Refrigerator 

Cars. 


Hrs. 


Charge 

for 

Labor. 


>.40 


* -40 


3 .60 

3 -60 

1 .20 


1 

6 

6 

6 


.20 
1 20 
1.20 
1.20 


1 .20 


10 

3 

2 

3 


2.00 

.60 

.40 

.60 








































39 


Rule 104— Continued. 


End planks, three, renewed on same 

end. 

without angle irons. 

with angle irons, bolted... 
with angle irons, riveted.. 
End planks, four, renewed on same 

end.. 

without angle irons . 

with angle irons, bolted... 
with angle irons, riveted.. 

End plate, one, replaced. 

End post, one, replaced, empty car... 

replaced, loaded car. 

Journal box, one, replaced. 

Journal boxes, two, on same axle 

replaced. 

Journals, truing up one or two, on 

same axle. 

Platform plank, one, replaced. 

Putting car on center, empty. 

Putting car on center, loaded. 

Releasing rod for M. C. B. coupler, 

one, replaced. . . . 

Running board, complete, applied. ... 

Spring plank, one, replaced. 

Side plank, one, renewed on gondola 

car. 

without angle irons. 

with angle irons, bolted . 
with angle irons, riveted.. 
Side planks, two, renewed on same 

side. 

without angle irons. 

Side planks, two, with angle irons, 

bolted . 

with angle irons, riveted 
Side planks, three, renewed on same 

side. 

without angle irons . 

with angle irons, bolted .. 
with angle irons, riveted,. 


Ordinary 

Cars. 

Refrigerator 

Cars. 


Charge 


Charge 

drs. 

for 

Hrs. 

for 


Labor. 


Labor. 

3 

$0.60 



4 

80 



6 

1.20 



3 54 

.70 



454 

• 9 ° 



6 % 

1 30 



12 

2.40 

14 

$2.80 

3 

.60 

6 

1.20 

4 

.80 

6 

1.20 

2 

.40 

2 

.40 

3 

.60 

3 

.60 

2 

.40 

2 

• 40 

I 

.20 

I 

.20 

1 

.20 

1 

.20 

2 

.40 

2 

.40 


. 10 


. 10 

6 

1.20 

6 

1.20 

10 

2.00 

10 

2.00 

4 

. 80 



7 

1.40 



8 

1.60 



554 

I . 10 



8 

1.60 



9 

1.80 




1.40 



Q 

] .80 



10 

2.00 


. 
























































r 


40 

Rule 104 — Continued. 


% 

Ordinary 

Cars. 

Refrigerator 

Cars. 

Hrs. 

Charge 

for 

Labor. 

Hrs.. 

Charge 

for 

Labor. 

Side planks, four, renewed on same 





side. 





without angle irons. 

814 

$1 70 



with ancle irons, bolted. 

IO 

2-00 



with angle jrnns riveted. 

T T 

2.20 



Side plate, one, applied. 

25 

5.00 

35 

$7.00 

spliced. 

8 

1.60 

15 

3.00 

Sidepost, one, replaced. 

3 

.60 

6 

1.20 

Siding, removed and replaced, per 





lineal foot. 


. 10 


. 10 

SILLS : 





1 center sill, replaced. 

32 

6.40 

44 

8.80 

2 center sills, replaced. 

38 

7.60 

65 

13.00 

1 end sill under siding, replaced. 

15 

3.00 

15 

3.00 

x end sill outside siding, replaced.... 

7 

1.40 

7 

1.40 

1 end sill under siding, replaced when 





one or more defective sills have 





been replaced.. .. 

3 

.60 

3 

.60 

1 end sill outside siding, replaced 





when one or more defective sills 





have been replaced. 

2 

.40 

2 

.40 

1 intermediate sill, replaced. 

29 

5.80 

40 

8.00 

2 “ “ “ . 

35 

7.00 

56 

11.20 

3 intermediate sills replaced. 

4 1 

8.20 

66 

13.20 

4 

47 

9.40 

76 

15-20 

1 inter, sill and i center sill replaced. 

38 

7.60 

60 

12.00 

1 “ “ “ 2 “ sills “ 

44 

8.80 

81 

16.20 

2 “ sills “ 1 “ sill “ 

43 

8.60 

70 

I4.OO 

2 “ “ “ 2 “ sills “ 

50 

10.00 

9 t 

18.20 

3 “ “ “ 1 “ sill “ 

48 

9.60 

80 

l6.00 

3 “ “ “ 2 “ sills 

60 

12.00 

101 

20.20 

4 “ “ “ 1 “ sill “ 

60 

12.00 

90 

l8.00 

4 “ “ “ 2 “ sills “ 

65 

13.00 

hi 

22.20 

x intermediate sill, spliced. 

11 

2.20 

14 

2.80 

1 side sill and i center sill replaced. 

48 

9.60 

65 

13.0° 

1 “ “ “ 2 “ sills “ 

53 

10.60 

86 

17.20 

2 “ sills “ 1 “ sills “ 

68 

13.60 

86 

17.20 

2 “ “ “ 2 “ sills “ 

7 1 

14.20 

107 

21.40 

1 “ sill spliced. 

12 

2.40 

15 

3.00 

1 “ sill replaced. 

25 

5-oo 

44 

8.80 

2 “ sills “ . 

40 

8.00 

65 

13.00 

1 “ sill and 1 inter, sill replaced.... 

44 

8.80 

60 

12.00 


















































41 


Rule 104— Continued. 



Ordinary 

Cars. 

Refrigerator 

Cars. 

Hrs. 

Charge 

for 

Labor. 

Hrs. 

Charge 

for 

Labor. 

1 side sill and 2 inter, sills replaced. .. 

50 

$10.00 

70 

$14.00 

| 11 11 “3 * 4 44 44 

56 

XI. 20 

80 

16.00 

• 11 11 II ‘ < < 1 11 

I 4 .... 

62 

12.40 

90 

18.00 

2 “ sills “ 1 “ sill “ _ 

58 

11.60 

81 

16.20 

2 “ “ “ 2 “ sills “ _ 

64 

12.80 

9 i 

18.20 

2 side sills and 3 inter, sills replaced .. 

70 

14.00 

101 

20.20 

2 side sills and 4 inter, sills replaced.. 

76 

15-20 

hi 

22.20 

1 side, 1 inter, and 1 center sill repl .. . 

53 

10.60 

81 

16.20 

2 “ 1 “ “ L “ “ “ ... 

74 

14.80 

102 

20.40 

2 11 2 “ 11 1 11 it u 

58 

11.60 

9 i 

18.20 

2 “ 2 “ “ 1 “ “ *• ... 

76 

15.20 

112 

22.40 

2 it ^ it 11 1 it 11 tc 

63 

12.60 

I 0 [ 

20.20 

2 1 ^ g “ i» 2 14 “ it 

81 

16.20 

122 

24.40 

2 it ^ t« 11 j it it it 

68 

13.60 

III 

22.20 

2 “ ^ *< “ 1 “ “ “ 

86 

17.20 

132 

26.40 

1 “ 1 “ “2 “ sills “ ... 

,58 

11.60 

102 

20.40 

2 11 2 “ 2 U “ 41 

76 

15.20 

123 

24.60 

2 11 2 44 11 2 4 4 44 44 

63 

12.60 

112 

22.40^ 

2 it ^ it 1 1 2 44 44 44 

69 

13.80 

122 

24.40 

2 it ^ it 11 2 “ 44 44 

74 

14.80 

132 

26.40 

2 “ 2 “ “2 “ “ “ ... 

81 

16.20 

133 

26.60 

2 11 3 44 2 4 4 4 4 4 4 

86 

17.20 

143 

28.60 

2 1 4 ^ *1 11 2 4 4 4 4 4 4 

9 i 

18.20 

153 

30.60 

Each side or inter, sill spliced, when 





other sills have to be repl. as above. 

6 

1.20 

7 

1 . 40 

An additional charge of 75 cents 





shall be allowed in replacing inter- 





mediate or center sills on cars 





equipped with air brakes. 





Stakes, end, on gondola cars, applied, 





nh . 

1 'A 

•30 



Stakes, side, on gondola cars, applied, 



ph _ - . 

i y 2 

.30 



Truck spring, one, replaced. . 

2 

.40 

2 

.40 

Truck transom, one, wood, replaced.. 

10 

2.00 

IO 

2.00 

Truck transoms, two, wood, replaced 





in same truck . 

12 

2.40 

12 

2.40 

Weighing and re-stenciling car, per 





rule 70 . 

V2 

. 10 

Vi 

. 10 
































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Rule 104— Continued. 



Ordinary 

Cars. 

Refrigerator 

Cars. 


Hrs. 

Charge 

for 

Labor. 

Hrs. 

Charge 

for 

Labor. 

AVhen necessary to remove load to 
replace body center plate, bolt or 
bolts, one or two draft timbers, or 
draft timber bolts, at one end of car 

2 

$0.40 

2 

$0.40 


REPAIRS OF STEEL CARS. 

All rivets, 10 cents per rivet, which covers removal and replacing- of 

. rivets, including removing, fitting and replacing damaged parts, 
less straightening or repairing. 

Straightening or ^repairing parts removed from damaged car, 60 
cents per ioo pounds. 

Straightening or repairing parts not removed from damaged car; also 
any parts that require straightening, repairing or renewing, not 
included on rivet basis, 20 cents per hour. 

■Credit for scrap material removed from cars constructed of pressed 
or structural steel, y 2 cent per pound. 

Rule 105. No charge to be made for labor 
of replacing or applying M. C. B. knuckles, 
knuckle pins, locking pins, clevises, clevis pins, 
lift chains, brake shoes or brake-shoe keys, 
except on the authority of a defect card. 

Rule 106. When it is necessary to apply an 
M. C. B. coupler complete, on account of a 
broken or missing knuckle, the usual labor 
charge for replacing a coupler can be made. 

Rule 107. No additional labor to be charged 
for applying center pin or friction rollers when 
center-plate bolts or center plates are renewed 
on same end of car. 

Rule 108. No additional labor to be charged 
for renewing head blocks or buffer blocks if 
end sill at same end is renewed or replaced. 

















43 


Rule 109. No additional labor to be charged 
for replacing or renewing coupler when one or 
both draft timbers are replaced or renewed at 
the same end of car at the same time. 

Rule no. The following table shows the 
labor charges allowable in cents for the items 
named in air brake work: The letters “ R. & 
R.” mean “ removed and replaced.” 


Cents. 

Air hose, R. & R. 3 

Angle cock, R. & R. 6 

Angle cock handle, R. & R. 6 

Check valve case, spring, gasket, or all, R. 

& R. 9 

DETAILS. Cents. 

Disconnecting union . 2 

Check valve case (two cap screws) . . 2 

Emergency valve seat. 5 

Total . 9 

Coupler, dummy, R. & R. (1 lag screw) .... 1 

Cut-out cock, R. & R. 8 

DETAILS. Cents. 

1 union disconnected..... 2 

2 pipe connections. 6 

Total . 8 

Cut-out cock handle, R. & R. 3 

Cylinder, R. & R. 27 

DETAILS. Cents. 

Push rod (1 connecting pin). 2 

Clamping piston (1 cap screw)...... 1 

Cylinder head, R. & R. (4 nuts 54 

inch, 1 cent each). 4 

Disconnecting cylinder from reser¬ 
voir (7 nuts, y?. inch, 1 cent each) 7 

Reclamping cylinder piston (1 cap 

screw) . 1 

Removing cylinder from car (6 nuts, 

54 inch, 2 cents each). 12 

Total . 27 





















44 


Rule iio -^Continued. 


Cents. 

Cylinder and reservoir, R. & R. 36 

DETAILS. Cents. 

Removing push rod (1 connecting 

pin) . 2 

Removing cylinder head (4 nuts, 

inch, 1 cent each) .. 4 

Removing cylinder from car (6 nuts, 

54 . inch, 2 cents each). 12 

Removing reservoir from car, (2 nuts, 

54 inch, 2 cents each). 4 

Removing release rods (2 spring cot¬ 
ters) . 2 

Removing release valve . 2 

Removing two plugs . 2 

Removing triple (2 nuts, 5 4 inch, 2 

cents each) . 4 

Disconnecting train pipe union. 2 

Disconnecting retaining pipe unions. . 2 

Total . 36 


Cylinder and reservoir, tightening when 

loose (8 nuts ic each). 8 

Cylinder cleaned, oiled, tested and stenciled. 20 

DETAILS. Cents. 

Removing push rod (1 connecting pin) 2 

Clamping piston (1 cap screw). 1 

Removing cylinder head (4 nuts, 

inch, 1 cent each) % . 4 

Cleaning, testing and stenciling.. 13 


x Total . 20 

Cylinder release spring, R. & R. 8 

DETAILS. Cents. 

Removing push rod (1 connecting pin) 2 
Clamping cylinder piston (1 cap 

screw) . 1 

Removing cylinder head (4 nuts, 

inch, 1 cent each). 4 

Reclamping cylinder head (1 cap 
screw) . 1 

Total . 8 

Cylinder gasket, R. & R. 20 

DETAILS. Cents. 

Disconnecting triple union. 2 

Disconnecting retaining pipe union... 2 
Disconnecting reservoir bloch — 

54 inch, 2 cents each) 


4 


























Rule iio— Continued. 


Cents. 

Disconnecting reservoir from cylinder 

(7 nuts, inch, 1 cent each).. 7 
Removing push rod (1 connecting pin) 2 

Clamping cylinder piston. 1 

Removing release rods (2 spring cot¬ 
ters) . 2 

Total ... 20 

Cents. 

Emergency valve piston R. & R. 9 

DETAILS. Cents. 

Disconnecting union. 2 

Removing check valve case (2 cap 

screws). 2 

Removing emergency valve seat. 5 

Total. 9 

Emergency valve seat R. & R. (see E. V. 

piston). 9 

Emergency valve, rubber seat, R. & R- 8 


DETAILS. Cents. 

Disconnecting union.. 2 

Removing check valve case (2 cap 

screws). 2 

Removing riveted pin. .. 3 

Removing emergency valve nut.. 1 

Total.. 8 / 

Cylinder piston packing, R. & R. n 

DETAILS. _ _ Cents. 

Removing push rod (1 connecting pin) <2 
Clamping cylinder piston (1 cap 

screw) . 1 

Removing cylinder head (4 nuts, J 4 

inch, 1 cent each). 4 

Removing leather packing (4 nuts, Yz 

inch, 1 cent each). 4 

Total . 11 

Cylinder piston, R. & R. 12 

DETAILS. Cents. 


Removing push rod (1 connecting pin) 2 
Clamping cylinder piston (1 cap 

screw) . 

Removing cylinder head (4 nuts, J 4 
inch, 1 cent each).. 


4 
























46 


Rule no— Continued. 

Cents. 

Removing leather packing (4 nuts, 

inch, 1 cent each). 4 

Reclamping cylinder piston (1 cap 
screw) . 1 

Total . 12 

Cents. 

Gasket, coupling, R. & R. 2 

Graduating nut, stem, spring or all, R. & R. 2 

Oil plugs, R. & R. each. 2 

Packing leather expander, R. & R. (see 

cylinder piston). 7 

Pipe, train or branch, R. & R., for each con¬ 
nection made. 3 

Push rod, R. & R. (1 connecting pin). 2 

Release valve, R. & R. 4 

DETAILS. Cents. 

Disconnecting release rod (2 spring 

cotters) . 2 

Disconnecting release valve. 2 

Total . 4 

Release valve, removed, repaired and re¬ 
placed (R. & R. 4c.). 9 

Release valve rod, removed, repaired and 
replaced . 2 

DETAILS. Cents. 

i spring cotter. 1 

Removing staple. 1 

Total. 2 

Reservoir, R. & R. 25 

DETAILS. Cents. 

Removing from car (2 nuts, inch, 

2 cents each). . ... 4 

Disconnecting from cylinder (7 nuts, 

Vi ^ inch, 1 cent each). 7 

Removing release rods (2 spring cot- 

_ ters) . 2 

Removing release valve. 2 

Removing two plugs. 2 

























47 


Rule iio— Continued. 


Removing triple valve nuts, §4. 

inch, 2 cents each). 

Disconnecting union . 

Disconnecting union, retaining pipe.. 


Cents. 

4 

2 

2 


Total ...25 

Cents. 

Removing cylinder cap (3 nuts x / z inch, ic 

each)... 3 

Removing slide valve (3 nuts x /z inch, ic 


each).. 3 

Repairing retaining valve (R. & R. 5c). 10 

Retaining valve R. & R. (2 lag screws 2c, 

valve 3c). 5 

Slide valve, removed, ground in and replaced 33 
Slide valve spring, R. & R. 6 


DETAILS. Cents. 

Cylinder cap (3 cap screws). 3 

Removing riveted pin. 3, 

Total. 6 


Strainer, R. & R. (disconnecting union).... 2 


Triple cylinder cap, R. & R. (3 nuts, x / 2 inch, 

iceach). 3; 

Triple cylinder cap gasket, R. & R. (3 nuts 

Yz inch, ic each). 3 

Triple piston packing ring, fitted. 15, 

Triple valve, removed, cleaned, oiled, tested 
and stenciled. 24 

details. Cents. 

Train pipe union disconnected. 2 

Retaining pipe union disconnected. ... 2 

Removing triple (2 nuts, §4 inch, 2 

cents each) .. 4 

Check valve case (2 cap screws).... 2 

Emergency valve seat . 5 

Cylinder cap (3 bolts) . 3 

Cleaning, testing and stenciling. 6 

Total . 24 























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Rule iio — Continued. 

Cents. 

Triple valve gasket, R. & R. 8 

DETAILS. _ Cents. 

Disconnecting branch pipe union. 2 

Disconnecting retaining pipe union.. 2 

Removing triple (2 nuts, §4 inch, .2 
cents each) .. 4 

Total . 8 

Unions disconnected and connected. 2 


The following basic units were used in 
determining the details of prices given above. 
These units are not to be used in rendering 
bills, but may be used in the determination of 
cost of other combinations of air brake repairs 
not above mentioned. 


Cap screws or studs or bolts, R. & R., each. 1 

Cylinder cleaning, testing and stenciling. 13 

Emergency valve seat, R. & R. 5 

Graduating stem nut, R. & R... 2 

Lag or wood screws, R. & R., each. 1 

Nuts tightened when loose, each. 1 

Nuts, Yt. inch or less, R. & R., 1 or 2 on same bolt 1 

Nuts, 54 inch or over, R. & R., 1 or 2 on same bolt 2 

Pins connecting R. & R. (including split key) .... 2 

Pins riveted, R. & R., each. 3 

Plugs, oil, R. & R., each... 1 

Spring cotters, R. & R., each. 1 

Staples, R. & R., each. 1 

Testing air (after repairs). 5 

Threads on pipe, cutting, per coupling. 5 

Train or branch pipe, disconnected and connected, 

or only connected, each connection. 3 

Triple valve, cleaning, testing and stenciling. 6 

Union disconnected and connected. 2 


Rule hi. The 'settlement prices of new 
eight-wheel cars shall be as follows, with an 
addition of $27.50 for each car equipped with 
air brakes. The road destroying a car with air 
brakes may elect to return the air-brake appa¬ 
ratus, including such attachments as are usu¬ 
ally furnished by the air-brake manufacturer, 
complete and in good condition: 
























49 


Rule hi— Continued . 

Bodies. 

Wood. 

Box car, eight-wheel, 40 feet long or 

over . $440.00 

Box car, eight-wheel, 36 feet long or 

over, but under 40 feet.,... . 385.00 

Box car, eight-wheel, 34 feet long or 

over, but under 36 feet long. 360.00 

Box car, eight-wheel, 32 feet long or 

over, but under 34 feet long. 330.00 

Box car, eight-wheel, under 32 feet 

long ... 265.00 

Box car, ventilated, eight-wheel, 40 

feet long or over. 470.00 

Box car, ventilated, eight-wheel, 36 

feet long, but under 40 feet. 415.00 

Box car, ventilated, eight-wheel, 34 

feet long, but under 36 feet. 385- 00 

Flat car, eight wheel, plain, 40 feet 

long or over. 200.00 

Flat car, eight-wheel,, plain, 32 feet 

long or over, but under 40 feet. I55°0 

Flat car, eight-wheel, plain, under 32 

feet long . no.00 

Gondola car, eight-wheel, drop-bottom, 

40 tons capacity or over. 33°- 0 ° 

Gondola car, eight-wheel, drop-bottom, 

30 tons capacity or over, but under 

40 tons . 300.00 

Gondola car, eight-wheel, drop-bottom, 

25 tons capacity or over, but under 

30 tons . 275.00 

Gondola car, eight-wheel, drop-bottom, 

20 tons capacity or under. 200.00 

Gondola car, eight-wheel, hopper-bot¬ 
tom, 50 tons capacity. 440.00 

Gondola car, eight-wheel, hopper-bot¬ 
tom, 40 tons capacity or over, but 
under 50 tons. 360.00 



















50 


Rule iii— Continued. 

Gondola car, eight-wheel, hopper-bot¬ 
tom, 30 tons capacity or over, but 


under 40 tons. . $330.00 

Gondola car, eight-wheel, hopper-bot¬ 

tom, 25 tons capacity or over, but 

under 30 tons. 290.00 

Gondola car, eight-wheel, hopper-bot¬ 
tom, 20 tons capacity or less. 220.00 

Gondola car,' eight-wheel, plain, 50 tons 

capacity and over. .... 350.00 

Gondola car, eight-wheel, plain, 40 tons 

capacity but under 50 tons. 300.00’ 

Gondola car, eight-wheel, plain, 30 tons 

capacity, but under 40 tons. 275.00 

Gondola car, eight-wheel, plain, 25 tons 

capacity, but under 30 tons. 250.00 

Gondola car, eight-wheel, plain, under 

25 tons . .. 140.00 

Stock car, eight-wheel, 34 feet long or 

over ... 330.00 

Stock car, eight-wheel, 32 feet long or 

over, but under 34 feet. 300.00 

Stock car, eight-wheel, under 32 feet 
l° n g . 265.00 


The lengths of cars above mentioned refer to the 
lengths over the end sills. 

In the case of double-deck stock cars, $25.00 may be 
added to the prices given above for stock cars. 

When cars of 60,000 pounds capacity or over, 
and so stenciled, have trucks with journals 4 
inches or over in diameter when new, $40 per 
car shall be added to the figure as given above 
for the values of car bodies, when equipped 
with metal bolsters. 

When cars are equipped with metal center 
sills, $35 shall be added to the values of bodies 
for cost of such metal sills. 













51 


Rule hi— Continued. 

Steel. 

Box car, wooden body, metal under¬ 
frame, eight-wheel, 50 tons capacity, 

38 feet 6 inches over end sills.$ 750.00 

Box car, wooden body, metal under¬ 
frame, eight-wheel, 36 feet long, but 

under 40 feet ... 675.00 

Flat car, wooden floor, metal under¬ 
frame, eight-wheel, 50 tons capacity, 

40 feet over end sills. 700.00 

Flat car, wooden floor, metal under¬ 
frame, eight-wheel, 40 tons capacity, 

40 feet over end sills. 540.00 

Gondola car, all metal, eight-wheel, 

hopper bottom, 50 tons capacity, 33 

feet over end sills. 750.00 

Gondola car, all metal, eight-wheel, 

drop bottom, 50 tons capacity, 40 

feet over end sills.'. 740.00 

Gondola car, all metal, eight-wheel, 

plain, 50 tons capacity, 40 feet over 

end sills . 720.00 

Gondola car, wooden body, metal 
underframe, eight-wheel, flat bot¬ 
tom, 40 feet over end sills. 720.00 

Trucks. 

50,000 lbs. capacity, with metal tran¬ 
soms and wooden bolster, per pair. . $195.00 
60,000 lbs. capacity or under, with 

wooden bolster, per pair. 195.00 

60,000 lbs. capacity or under, all metal, 

per pair . 285.00 

80,000 lbs. capacity or under, but over 

60,000 lbs., all metal, per pair. 360.00 

100,000 lbs. capacity or under, but over 

80,000 lbs., all metal, per pair. 385.00 

Prices include brake beams complete, truck 
levers, dead lever guides and bottom connec¬ 
tion rods. 














52 


Rule hi— Continued. 


Four-wheel Cars. 

Coal car, ordinary, complete. $220.00 

Box car, complete. 255.00 

Gondola car, drop-bottom, complete.. 330.00 


Rule 112. In the case of wooden cars, the 
depreciation due to age shall be estimated at 6 
per cent per annum upon the yearly depre¬ 
ciated value of the bodies and trucks only. In 
the case of all steel cars and cars with steel 
underframes, the depreciation shall be 5 per 
cent per annum for the bodies of all steel cars; 
for bodies of cars with steel underframes the 
depreciation shall be at the rate of 6 per cent 
per annum with the exception of flat cars with 
wooden floors, which shall be 5 per cent per 
annum. The depreciation on the value of 
trucks of steel cars shall be 6 per cent per 
annum. Allowances for depreciation shall in 
no case exceed 60 per cent of the value new. 
The amount $27.50 for air brakes shall not be 
subject to any depreciation. 

Rule 113. The bodies of refrigerator cars, 
special stock cars, tank cars, except the tanks, 
and other freight cars, designed for special 
purposes, not referred to above, shall be set¬ 
tled for at the present cost price, as may be 
agreed to by the parties in interest, less the 
deduction for depreciation due to age, which 
shall be on the same basis as for regular 
freight equipment. 

Rule 114. In rendering bills, cars shall be 
treated as belonging to companies or individu- 




t/o- f 

Rule i 14 — Continued. 

als whose name or initials they bear, except in 
case of Line Cars where the equipment list of 
the general officers of the Line designates a 
party to make settlement. 

Rule 115. Switching roads will only be 
allowed to render bills against car owners for 
the following defects repaired by them: Roof 
lost on account of decay or faulty construc¬ 
tion, worn-out brasses, broken truck springs, 
truck transoms, arch bars, draft-timber bolts, 
column bolts, truck hangers, truck transom 
truss rods, truck bolsters, truck bolster truss 
rods, oil boxes, spring planks, truck hanger 
pins, side bearings and center plates, center- 
plate bolts, center pins, followers, American 
continuous rods or keys, draft springs, coup¬ 
lers, knuckles and drawbar pockets and rivets, 
defective wheels as specified in Rules 7 to 18, 
inclusive, defective axles as described in Rules 
22 and 23, cars not within the limits of stand¬ 
ard height for couplers, as per Rule 36, safety 
appliances as prescribed by Rule 37, and grain 
doors and all inside or concealed parts of 
bodies of cars missing or damaged under fair 
usage N as prescribed in Rule 35, provided the 
damage has not been caused by derailment or 
rough usage. They will be allowed to render 
bills direct against car. owners on all car 
owners’ defects on cars received by them from 
a railroad company, provided they procure 
joint evidence from the delivering road that 
such car owners’ defect existed when the car 
was delivered by the railroad company, joint 


54 


Rule 115 — Continued. 

evidence to accompany the bill against the car 
owner. 

Rule 116. A switching road is a corporation 
doing the major part of its business on a 
switching charge. 

Rule 117. Bills may be rendered against car 
owners for the cost of applying temporary 
running boards and hand rails to make cars 
safe for trainmen. 

Destroyed Cars and the Return of Trucks. 

Rule 118. The company on whose line the 
bodies or trucks are destroyed shall report the 
fact to the owner immediately after their 
destruction, and shall have its option whether 
to rebuild or settle for the same. 

Rule 119. If the company on whose lines the 
car is destroyed elects to rebuild either body 
or trucks, or both, the original plan of con¬ 
struction must be followed, and the original 
kind and qualities of materials used. The re¬ 
building must be completed within 60 days 
from the original date of damage or destruc¬ 
tion. In such cases no allowance shall be 
made for betterments. 

Rule 120. If only the body of a car is de¬ 
stroyed, and the company destroying it elects 
to return the trucks, they shall be put in good 
order, or accompanied by a defect card, cover¬ 
ing all defects or improper repairs made by 
them for which owners are not responsible, 
and forwarded, within 60 days, free of freight 
or other charges, to the nearest point on the 


55 


Rule 120— Continued. 

line of the company owning or operating the. 
car, and the number, line and class of car 
destroyed shall be stenciled or painted on each 
truck so returned. 

Rule 121. The company on whose line the- 
body or trucks of a car are seriously damaged, 
but not destroyed, may notify the owner and' 
ask an appraisement on the damage done to the 
car as a basis for the disposal of the damaged' 
car. 

Rule 122. For the mutual advantage of rail¬ 
way companies interested, the settlement for a 
car owned or controlled by a railway company, 
when damaged or destroyed upon a private 
track, shall be assumed by the railway com¬ 
pany delivering the car upon such tracks. 

Sending Home Worn-out and Damaged Cars.. 

Rule 123. A car unsafe to load on account 
of general worn-out condition, due to age or 
decay, shall be reported to its owner, who- 
must be advised of all existing defects. If the 
owner elects to have it sent home, he shall 
furnish two home cards, noting upon them 
existing defects and the route over which the 
car is to be returned to its owner. If the 
route coincides with that over which the car 
passed to the point where it became unserv¬ 
iceable, no liability shall be incurred as be¬ 
tween the owner and the road handling the 
car, either for freight charges in handling the 
car or for car service during this movement. 

Such cards shall be attached to each side of 
the body of the car. They shall be 3 f 4 by & 


56 


Rule 123— Continued . 

inches, and of the form shown below. They 
shall be printed on both sides, and shall be 
filled in on both sides with ink or black indel¬ 
ible pencil: 


R. R. 
R. R. 


Car No .Initials 

To be shopped for. 


(Head of Car Department.) 


Rule 124. A car which is safe to run, but 
unsafe to load on account of serious damage 
caused by wreck or accident, shall be reported 
to the owners for appraisement and disposi¬ 
tion, and disposed of as provided in Rule 123, 
if the owner so elects. 

Rule 125. In case of cars of private owner¬ 
ship sent home on account of general worn-out 
condition due to age or decay, such cars shall 
be entitled to as many miles of homeward 
movement, free of charge to owners, as they 
may have been handled over said line under 
load, and no mileage to be paid to owners by 
roads handling. If the haul necessary to get 
cars home is in excess of such loaded mileage, 


FROM 


TO 


VIA 

















57 


Rule 125— Continued. 

said excess will be billed against the owner at 
regular freight rates and the owner notified. 

Rule 126. Private line cars sent home to own¬ 
ers on account of being wrecked or damaged 
in accident shall be regularly billed home free 
of charge to owners and owners notified, pro¬ 
viding such homeward movement passes over 
roads which have handled the cars loaded, pre¬ 
vious to their homeward empty movement; 
otherwise the damaged cars to travel home 
empty, free of charges and free of mileage 
according to home route; or, if owners prefer 
to have them billed home via direct line, then 
charges to accrue to such line over which cars 
were not entitled to free movement. 

Furnishing Materials. 

Rule 127. Companies shall promptly furnish 
to each other, upon requisition, and forward 
free over their own road, material for repairs 
of their cars injured upon foreign lines that 
can not be procured in open market. Requisi¬ 
tion for such material shall state that it is for 
repairs of cars, and shall give the number and 
lettering of such cars and pattern number of 
castings required when possible. 

Conditions of Acceptance of this Code. 

Rule 128. Any car owner or railway com¬ 
pany may become a party to this Code of Rules 
by giving notice through one of its general 
officers to the Secretary of the Master Car 
Builders’ Association. 

Railroad companies becoming subscribers to 


58 


Rule 128— Continued. 

this Code of Rules must have a representative 
member in the Master Car Builders’ Associa¬ 
tion. 

Rule 129. Any car owner or railway com¬ 
pany that is a party to this Code of Rules shall 
be bound by same through its successive revi¬ 
sions, until one of its general officers files with 
the Secretary of the Master Car Builders’ As¬ 
sociation its notification of withdrawal. 

Rule 130. Acceptance or rejection of this 
Code of Rules must be as a whole, and no 
.exception to an individual rule or rules shall 
;be valid. 

Settlement of Disputes. 

Rule 131. In order to settle disputes arising 
under the rules, and to facilitate the revision 
.of the rules at the annual conventions of the 
Association, an Arbitration Committee of five 
representative members shall be appointed an¬ 
nually by the Executive Committee; three 
members of this committee to constitute a 
.quorum. 

In case of any dispute or question arising 
under the rules between the subscribers to said 
rules, the same may be submitted to this com¬ 
mittee through the secretary, in abstract, 
jointly, said abstract setting forth the point or 
-points at issue, and each party’s interpretation 
of the rules upon which its claim is based, 
.clearly and concisely, not exceeding three type¬ 
written pages of letter size, single space, which 


59 


Rule 131— Continued . 

shall be signed by both parties to the dispute. 
Should one of the parties refuse or fail to fur¬ 
nish the necessary information, the committee 
shall use its judgment as to whether, with the 
information furnished, it can properly give its 
opinion. The decisions of the committee shall 
be final and binding upon the parties con¬ 
cerned. This committee shall report its deci¬ 
sions to the Association, and its report shall 
be incorporated in the annual report of pro¬ 
ceedings of the Association. 

Revision of this Code of Rules. 

Rule 132. The Arbitration Committee shall 
ask for suggestions of changes, amendments 
and additions to these rules prior to each an¬ 
nual convention, which it shall consider, and 
it shall report its recommendations to the 
succeeding annual convention. 

Rule 133. In the revision of these rules by 
the Association, a two-thirds vote shall be nec¬ 
essary for adoption. 

Rule 134. Voting powers shall be the same 
as prescribed in the Constitution of the Master 
Car Builders’ Association on matters pertain¬ 
ing to the adoption of standards and the ex¬ 
penditure of money. 

Rule 135. This Code of Rules shall be in¬ 
troduced for the discussion and revision at one 
session of the Master Car Builders’ Association 
convention each year. 


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Rule 136. This Code of Rules shall take 
effect September 1, 1904. 


LIST OF CAR OWNERS AND RAILWAY 
COMPANIES 

Which have Adopted the Code of Rules 
Governing the Condition of, and Repairs 
to, Freight Cars for the Interchange of 
Traffic. 

The following is a complete list of car own¬ 
ers and railway companies \ which have given 
notice of the adoption of the above Code of 
Rules. 

Other companies which adopt this Code of 
Rules should notify the secretary, in accord¬ 
ance with the Rules, so that the names of such 
companies may be included in the list there¬ 
after. Notice should be given of all changes in 
the names of companies in this list. 

Alabama Great Southern. 

Alabama & Mississippi. 

Alabama & Vicksburg. 

Alameda & San Joaquin. 

Albany & Hudson. 

Algoma Central. 

Allegheny Valley. 

American Cotton Oil Co. 

American Locomotive Co. 

American Fast Freight Line. 

American Refrigerator Transit Co. 

American Tank Line. 

Ann Arbor. 

Arizona & South Eastern. 

Arkansas, Louisiana & Southern. 

Armour Car Lines. 



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Armour Packing Co. 

Arms Palace Horse Car Co. 

Atchison, Topeka &' Santa Fe. 

Atlanta, Knoxville & Northern. 

Atlanta Stone, Coal & Lumber Line. 
Atlantic & Birmingham. 

Atlantic & Pacific. 

Atlanta & West Point. 

Atlantic Coast Line. 

Atlantic Seaboard Line. 

Atlantic, Valdosta & Western. 

Baltimore & Lehigh. 

Baltimore & Ohio. 

Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern. 

Baltimore & Potomac. 

Bangor & Aroostook. 

Barberton Belt. 

Bay Terminal. 

Beech Creek. 

Bellefonte Central. 

Bellingham Bay & British Columbia. 
Bennington & Rutland. 

Bessemer Coke Co. 

Boston & Albany. 

Boston & Lowell. 

Boston & Maine. 

Boston, Hoosac Tunnel & Western. 
Bristol, Elizabethton & North Carolina. 
Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburg. 

Buffalo & Susquehanna. 

Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern. 
Burlington & Missouri River in Nebraska. 
Butte, Anaconda & Pacific. 

Cairo, Vincennes & Chicago. 

California Fruit Transportation Co. 
Cammal & Black Forest. 

Canada Atlantic. 

Canada Southern. 

Canadian Pacific. 

Cananea Consolidated Copper Co. 

Cananea, Yaqui River & Pacific. 

Canda Cattle Car Co. 

Carolina Central. 


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Carolina & North-Western. 

Cape Girardeau South-Western. 

Central New England. 

Central R. R. & Banking Co. of Georgia. 
Central Railroad of New Jersey. 

Central Vermont. 

Champaign & Havanna. 

Chattanooga, Rome & Columbus. 

Chattanooga Southern. 

Chesapeake, Ohio & South-Western. 
Chesapeake & Ohio. 

Chesapeake & Western. 

Chicago, Burlington & Kansas City. 

Chicago, Burlington & Northern.' 

Chicago, Burlington & Quincy. 

Chicago, Fort Madison & Des Moines. 

Chicago Great Western. 

Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville. 

Chicago Junction. 

Chicago, Lake Shore .& Eastern. 

Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul. 

Chicago, New York & Boston Refrigerator Co. 
Chicago, Peoria & St. Louis. 

Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific. 

Chicago, St. Louis & Pittsburgh. 

Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha. 
Chicago Terminal Transfer. 

Chicago Union Transfer. 

Chicago & Alton. 

Chicago & Eastern Illinois. 

Chicago & Erie. 

Chicago & Iowa. 

Chicago & North-Western. 

Chicago & South Bend. 


Chicago & Western Indiana and Belt Railway, 
Chihuahua & Pacific. 

Choctaw, Oklahoma & Gulf. 

Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton. 

Cincinnati, Selma & Mobile. 

Cincinnati Northern. 

Cincinnati Southern. 

Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific. 
Cleveland, Akron & Columbus. 



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Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis^ 
Cleveland & Marietta. 

Cleveland, Canton & Southern. 

Cleveland, Lorain & Wheeling. 

Cleveland Terminal & Valley. 

Clove Branch. 

CoLorado & Southern. 

Colorado & Wyoming. 

Colorado Midland. 

Columbus, Hocking Valley & Toledo.- 
Columbus, Sandusky & Hocking. 
Connecticut River. 

Consolidated Cattle Car Co. 

Consolidated Rolling Stock Co. 

Continental Fruit Express. 

Cornwall. 

Cornwall & Lebanon. 

Corsicana Cotton Oil Co. 

Craig Oil Co. 

Cudahy Refrigerator Line. 

Cumberland Valley. 

Cumberland & Pennsylvania. 

Delaware, Lackawanna & Western. 
Delaware, Susquehanna & Schuylkill 
Delaware & Hudson Co. 

Denver & Rio Grande. 

Detroit, Toledo & Milwaukee. 

Detroit & Lima Northern. 

Detroit & Mackinac. 

Des Moines & Fort Dodge. 

Des Moines & Northern. 

Dolese & Shepard. 

Dominion Atlantic. 

Doud Stock Car Co. 

Dry Fork. 

Duluth & Iron Range. 

Duluth, Missabe & Northern. 

Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic. 

Durham & Northern. 

Eagle Oil Co. 

East St. Louis Connecting. 

East & West. 

Elgin, Joliet & Eastern. 



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Elmira, Cortland & Northern. 

Empire Oil Works. 

Erie. 

Erie & Wyoming Valley. 

Esquimalt & Nanaimo. 

Evansville & Terre Haute. 

Express Coal Line. 

Fairbank Co., The N. K. 

Fall Brook. 

Findlay, Fort Wayne & Western. 
Fitchburg. 

Florence & Cripple Creek. 

Florida Central & Peninsular. 

Florida East Coast. 

Fort Worth & Denver City. 

Freedom Oil Works. 

Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio. 
Geneva, Ithaca & Sayre. 

George’s Creek & Cumberland. 

Georgia. 

Georgia, Carolina & Northern. 

Georgia Southern & Florida. 
German-American Car Co. 
German-American Refrigerator Express. 
German-American Tank Line. 

Golden Circle. 

Goodwin Car Co. 

Grand Rapids & Indiana. 

Grand Trunk R’y System. 

Great Northern Railway Line 
Green Bay & Western. 

Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe. 

Gulf, Western Texas & Pacific. 

Hannibal & St. Joseph. 

Hartford & Connecticut Western. 

Hecla Belt Line. 

Heinz, H. J., & Co. 

Higgins Dil & Fuel Co. 

Housatonic. 

Houston East & West Texas. 

Houston & Texas Central. 

Huntington & Broad Top Mountain. 
Hutchinson & Southern. 


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Illinois Central. 

Indiana, Bloomington & Western, 
Indianapolis, Decatur & Western, 
Indiana Harbor. # 

Indiana, Illinois & Iowa. 

Indiana Pipe Line & Refining Co, 
Intercolonial of Canada. 

International & Great Northern. % 

Iowa Central. 

Iron Car Express Coal Line. 

Jacksonville & St. Louis. 

Jacob Dold Packing Co. 

Kanawha & Michigan. 

Kansas City, Fort Scott & Memphis. 
Kansas City, St. Joseph & Council Bluffs, 
Kansas City, Memphis & Birmingham, 
Kansas City Southern. 

Kentucky Refining Co 
' Keokuk & Western. 

Keystone Palace Horse Car Co. 

Knapp, I. N. 

Lake Carrier’s Oil Co. 

Lake Champlain & Moriah. 

- Lake Erie & Detroit River, 
v Lake Erie & Western. 

Lake Shore & Michigan Southern, 

Lake Superior & Ishpeming. 

Leavenworth, Kansas & Western. 

Lehigh & Hudson River. 

Lehigh Valley. 

Lexington & Eastern. 

Lipton Car Lines. 

Litchfield, Carrollton & Western. 

Live Poultry Transportation Co. 
Louisiana & Northwest. 

Louisiana Railway & Navigation Co, 
Louisiana Western. 

' Louisville Cotton Oil Co. 

Louisville & Nashville. 

Louisville, New Orleans & Texas, 
Louisville, St. Louis & Texas. 

Louisville & St. Louis. 

Lutz & Schramm Co. 


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Macon & Birmingham. 

Madison, Alton & Chicago. 

Mahoning Valley. 

Maine Central.' 

Manhattan Oil Co. 

Manistee & Grand Rapids. 

Manistee & North Eastern. 

Manitoba & North-Western R’y of Canada. 
Marietta, Columbus & Cleveland. 

Marquette & Southeastern. 

Martin, John C. 

Marshalltown & Dakota. 

Mason City & Fort Dodge. 

Mather Stock Car Co. 

Mexican Central. 

Mexican International. 

Mexican Northern. 

Michigan Central. 

Midland Valley. 

Miller’s Sons’ Co., A. D. 

Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Western. 

Minnesota & International. 

Mississippi River, Hamburg & Western. 
Missouri Pacific. 

Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie 
Minneapolis & St. Louis. 

Missouri, Kansas & Texas. 

Mobile & Birmingham. 

Mobile & Ohio. 

Mobile, Jackson & Kansas City. 

Monongahela Connecting. 

Montana Union. 

Monte Cristo. 

Morgan’s Louisiana & Texas Railroad & 
Steamship Co. 

Morganstown & Kingwood. 

Munising. 

Nacozari. 

Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis. 

National Car Co. 

National Rolling Stock Co. 

Nelson Morris & Co. 

Newburgh, Dutchess & Connecticut. 


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New Orleans & North-Eastern 
Newport News & Mississippi Valley. 

New York Central & Hudson River. 

New York & Northern. 

New York & Ottawa. 

New York, Chicago & St. Louis. 

New York, New Haven & Hartford. 

New York, Ontario & Western, 
t New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio. 

New York, Philadelphia & Norfolk. 

New York, Providence & Boston. 

* New York & New England. 

New York, Susquehanna & Western, 

>. New York, Texas & Mexican. 

Norfolk Southern. 

;• Norfolk & Carolina. 

Norfolk & Western. 

, Northern Central. 

Northern Pacific. 

Old Colony, 
e Ohio Southern. 

Ohio & Mississippi. 

Ogdensburg & Lake Champlain. 

Omaha & St. Louis. 

Oregon Railroad & Navigation Co. 

✓ Paragon Refining Co. 

Parral & Durango. 

Penn Gas Coal Co. 

Pennsylvania Co. 

, Pennsylvania Railroad. 

Pennsylvania, Poughkeepsie & Boston. 
Pennsylvania & North-Western. 

. Peoria, Decatur & Evansville. 

Pere Marquette. 

[ Petersburg. 

Philadelphia &' Reading. 

Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore. 
Pittsburgh, Akron & Western. 

Pittsburgh, Chartiers & Youghiogheny. 
Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis, 
Pittsburgh Coal Co. 

Pittsburgh, Bessemer & Lake Erie. 
Pittsburg, Shawmut & Northern. 



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Pittsburgh & Buffalo Co. 

Pittsburgh & Eastern. 

Pittsburgh & Lake Erie. 

Pittsburgh & Western. 

Plant System. 

Pontiac, Oxford & Northern. 

Portland & Rumford Falls. 

Produce Shippers’ Despatch. 
Providence & Worcester. 

Provision Dealers’ Despatch. 

Raleigh & Augusta Air Line. 

Raleigh & Gaston. 

Rio Grande, Sierra Madre & Pacific. 
Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac. 
Rio Grande Western. 

Rock Island & Peoria. 

Rome, Watertown & Ogdensburg. 
Roanoke & Tar River. 

Rutland. 

Saginaw Valley & St. Louis. 

Saint Clair Terminal. 

San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake. 
Santa Fe Central. 

Santa Fe Pacific. 

Santa Fe, Prescott & Phoenix. 

Scioto Valley. 

Seaboard & Roanoke. 

Seattle & International. 

Shenandoah Valley. 

Sherman, Shreveport & Southern. 
Shippers Refrigerator Car Co. 

South Carolina. 

South-Eastern Line. 

South Florida. 

Southwestern of Arizona. 

Southern. 

Southern Central. 

Southern Freight Line. 

Southern Indiana. 

Southern Iron Car Line. 

Southern Oil Co. 

Southern Pacific (Pacific System). 
Spokane Falls & Northern. 


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St. Joseph, South Bend & Southern. 

St. Joseph & Grand Island. 

St. Louis Car Co^ Line. 

St. Louis, Chicago & St. Paul. 

St. Louis Dressed Beef & Provision Co. 

St. Louis, Kansas City & Colorado. 

St. Louis, Keokuk & North-Western. 

St. Louis, Peoria & Northern. 

St. Louis Refrigerator Car Co. 

St. Louis South-Western. 

St. Louis South-Western Railway of Texas. 
St. Louis Transfer. 

St. Louis & Hannibal. 

St. Louis & North Arkansas. 

St. Louis & San Francisco. 

St. Paul & Duluth. 

Staten Island Rapid Transit. 

Street’s Western Stable Car Line. 

Swift & Co. 

Swift Refrigerator Transportation Co. 

Swift Live Stock Express Line. 

Sydney & Louisburg. 

Tennessee Copper Co. 

Terre Haute & Indianapolis. 

Texas & New Orleans. 

Texas Central. 

Texas Pacific. 

Toledo, Cincinnati & St. Louis. 

Toledo, Columbus & Cincinnati. 

Toledo, Peoria & Western. 

Toledo, St. Louis & Kansas City. 

Toledo & Ohio Central. 

Toledo & Ohio Central Extension. 

Toledo & Western. 

Toronto, Gray & Bruce. 

Toronto, Hamilton & Buffalo. 

Troy & Boston. 

Tyler South-Eastern. 

Union. 

Union Pacific. 

Union Stock Yards & Transit Co. of Chicago. 
Union Stock Yards Co. of Omaha. 

Union Tank Line. 


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United Counties. 

Vera Cruz & Pacific. 

Vicksburg, Shreveport & Pacific. 

Vinton Colliery Co. 

Virginia & Southwestern. 

Wabash Railway. 

Washington Southern. 

Waters Pierce Oil Co. 

Wheeling & Lake Erie. 

Western Car Co. 

Western Maryland. 

Western Railway of Alabama. 

Western New York & Pennsylvania. 
Western Rolling Stock & Equipment Co. 
West Jersey & Sea Shore. 

West Shore. 

West Side Belt. 

West Virginia Central & Pittsburg. 
Wilmington & Northern. 

Wisconsin Central. 

Zanesville & Ohio River. 


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APPENDIX. 


CODE) OK RULES 
Governing the Condition of, and Repairs* 
to Passenger Equipment Cars 
in Interchange. 


1. Each railway company shall give to for¬ 
eign cars, while on its line, the same care and 
attention that it gives its own cars, except in 
case of cars on which work is done under 
special agreement existing between the com¬ 
pany owning the cars and the road operating 
the same. 

2. Railroad companies handling cars are re¬ 
sponsible for damage to any car by unfair 
usage, derailment or accident, and for im¬ 
proper repairs made by them, and they should 
make proper repairs at their own expense or 
issue defect card covering all such damage or 
improper repairs. 

3. Cars must be delivered in good running 
order, and returned in as good general condi¬ 
tion as when received. 

4. The receiving road is authorized to make 
such alterations and repairs as are necessary 
for the safe movement of cars over its line, 
and must immediately notify the delivering 
road of all such alterations and repairs, upon 
receipt of which notification the delivering 
road shall furnish proper authority to render 
bill for such alterations and repairs. 

5. Authority must be furnished for the re- 




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placement of wheels and axles if in the fol¬ 
lowing condition: 

Wheels. 

( a ) Loose wheels. 

( b ) Variation from gauge beyond the limits 
as prescribed in the Rules of Interchange for 
freight -cars. 

Wheels, Cast-Iron. 

(a) Shelled out, with treads defective on 
account of circular pieces shelling out, leaving 
round, flat spots, deepest at the edges, with 
raised centers, if i% inches or more in diam¬ 
eter. ' 

( b ) Tread worn hollow; if tread is worn 
sufficiently hollow to render flange or rim 
liable to breakage. 

(c) Worn flange; flanges having flat, ver¬ 
tical surfaces, extending more than Ya inch 
from tread. 

( d ) Flat spots; if flat spots, caused by 
sliding, exceed iJ4 inches in length. 

( e ) Burst; if wheels are cracked from the 
wheel fit outward by pressure from the axle. 

(f) Flanges, rim, tread, plate or brackets, 
either cracked, chipped or broken in any man¬ 
ner. 

Wheels, Steel-Tired. 

(a) Loose, broken or cracked hubs, plates, 
bolts, retaining ring or tire. 

( b ) Worn flange or tire; with flanges less 
than inch thick, or having flat, vertical sur¬ 
faces extending more than inch from tread, 
or with tire thinner than shown in Fig. i. 


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(c) Flat spots; if flat spots, caused by 
sliding, exceed i% inches in length. 

Axles. 

Axles bent or broken, or having journals 
cut or less than 3^2 inches in diameter. 

Brakes. 

6. Brakes must be in perfect working order. 
Cylinders must have been cleaned and oiled 
within six months and the date of the last 
cleaning and oiling marked on brake cylinder 
and triple valve with white paint. 

The adjustment of piston travel based on 
seventy pounds as the initial pressure, must 
not be less .than 5 inches nor more than 8 
inches. 

Bills. 

7. Bills for wheels and axles shall be of the 


following form, and must make specific 

men- 

tion of each wheel and 

axle removed or ap- 

plied: 

Second- 
New. hand. 

Scrap. 

1 36-inch Cast Wheel. 

. $10.00 $7.50 

$5.00 

1 33-inch Cast Wheel. 

8.50 6.75 

4.50 

1 axle, 60,000 lbs. 

• 14.00 7.75 

5-25 

1 axle, 40,000 lbs. 

12.00 6.50 

4-50 


8. Bills rendered for labor and material fur¬ 
nished shall be in accordance with the follow¬ 
ing prices, with the proper debits and credits: 


Crkdit 

New. for Scrap. 

Journal Bearings.per lb. 16 cents. n cents. 

Malleable Iron. “ 3 “ \/ 2 *» 


Bolts, Nuts, Wrought 
Washers and all Wrought 
Iron except Axles. 









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Date. . kjo Received payment , $ 





























































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Credit 

New. for Scrap. 

Castings. per lb. cents. is cents. 

Spring Steel (not Springs) “ 4 “ % “ 

Lumber: Oak, Pine, Pop¬ 
lar, Hickory and Elm per ft. 2% “ 

Labor. 25 c. per hour. 

All steel castings and steel wheels of the 
different makes to be charged at current mar¬ 
ket prices. 

Removing, turning and replacing a pair of 
steel-tired wheels, $7. 

Removing and replacing a pair of wheels, $2. 

Loss of service metal from steel-tired wheels 
as a result of slid spots or other causes, to be 
charged at the rate of $2 per 1-16 inch thick¬ 
ness of tire. 

Glass, paints and other materials to be 
charged at current market prices. 

Gas. 

Debits and credits for gas shall be settled 
on the following basis: 

Gas shall be charged at its current market 
price. No labor shall be charged for filling 
tanks. 

If a car is transferred from the service of 
one railroad to that of another, the receiving 
road shall issue an M. C. B. defect card au¬ 
thorizing the delivering road to bill against it 
for the quantity of gas in the holders at the 
time car was received. 

Cars in interchange requiring holders to be 
filled, the receiving road shall be charged for 
the quantity of gas supplied. 




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For cars stored in shop for repairs, the 
company having the car in its possession shall 
be responsible to the delivering company for 
the gas in the holders, This will apply to 
sleeping car companies when cars are in their 
possession and out of service. 

LIST OF RAILROAD COMPANIES. 

The following is a complete list of the rail¬ 
road companies which have given notice of the 
adoption of the Code of Rules for the inter¬ 
change of passenger equipment cars: 

Arizona & South-Eastern. 

Atlantic, Valdosta & Western. 

Baltimore & Ohio. 

Bangor & Aroostook. 

Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern. 

Butte, Anaconda & Pacific. 

Cairo, Vincennes & Chicago. 

Canadian Pacific. 

Chesapeake & Ohio. 

Chicago & Erie. 

Chicago'& North-Western. 

Chicago, Burlington & Kansas City. 

Chicago, Burlington & Quincy. 

Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul. 

Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific. 

Choctaw, Oklahoma & Gulf. 

Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton. 

Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific.. 
Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis. 
Cleveland, Lorain & Wheeling. 

Cleveland Terminal & Valley. 

Colorado & Southern. 

Columbus, Sandusky & Hocking. 

Cornwall & Lebanon. 

Delaware, Lackawanna & Western. 

Denver & Rio Grande. 

Detroit, Toledo & Milwaukee. 


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Detroit & Lima Northern. 

Erie. 

Fitchburg. 

Florence & Cripple Creek. 

Florida Central & Peninsular. 

Florida East Coast. 

Fort Worth & Denver City. 

Golden Circle. 

Grand Rapids & Indiana. 

Grand Trunk Railway System. 

Green Bay & Western. 

Hannibal & St. Joseph. 

Hutchison & Southern. 

Illinois Central. 

Kanawha & Michigan. 

Kansas City Southern. 

Kansas City, St. Joseph & Council Bluffs. 

Lake Shore & Michigan Southern. 

Lehigh Valley. 

Manitoba & North-Western Railway of Canada. 
Mason City & Fort Dodge. 

Midland Valley. 

Minneapolis & St. Louis. 

Mississippi River, Hamburg & Western. 
Missouri Pacific. 

Mobile & Birmingham. 

Nacozari. 

Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis. 

New York Central & H-udson River. 

New York & Ottawa. 

Northern Pacific. 

Oregon Railway & Navigation Co. 
Pennsylvania, Poughkeepsie & Boston. 

Pere Marquette. 

Philadelphia & Reading. 

Pittsburgh & Western. 

Plant System. 

Rio Grande, Sierra Madre & Pacific. 

Rio Grande Western. 

Rock Island & Peoria. 

Sioux City & Northern. 

Southern. 

Southern Indiana. 


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Southern Pacific Company. 

South Florida. 

Southwestern of Arizona. 

Spokane Falls & Northern. 

St. Louis, Chicago & St. Paul. 

St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern. 
St. Louis, Kansas City & Colorado. 
St. Louis, Keokuk & North-Western. 
St. Louis South-Western. 

St. Louis South-Western of Texas. 
St. Louis & Hannibal. 

Texas & Pacific. 

Toledo & Ohio Central. 

Toledo & Ohio Central Extension. 
Toledo, Columbus & Cincinnati. 

Tyler South-Eastern. 

Union Pacific. 

United Counties. 

Vera Cruz & Pacific. 

Wabash. 

West Virginia Central & Pittsburgh. 
Wheeling & Lake Erie. 


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